Ashleigh Rogers
Artist. Facilitator. Instructor. Curator.
Tri Cities, WA
Bio
Ashleigh is a visual artist based in Tri-Cities. Her work explores themes of connection, shared narratives, intergenerational trauma, and healing through an experimental, multidisciplinary practice that includes painting, photography, installation, and sculpture.
In addition to her creative work, Ashleigh is deeply committed to facilitating accessible arts programming within her community, fostering spaces for connection, expression, and collective growth. She is a member of the Washington State Arts Commission Curator Roster, an experienced independent curator and exhibition producer, as well as the Arts Editor for Tumbleweird, further supporting and amplifying the regional arts community.
She holds a Bachelor of Social Science in Psychology and Fine Art from Washington State University. Drawing on this interdisciplinary background, Ashleigh seeks to create meaningful dialogue around memory and healing within both familial systems and broader communities.
Artist Statement
As a mother of four my work often explores the transformative nature of birth and the intimate, unspoken stories passed through generations. My practice considers how the body may hold ancestral memory-experiences we are not consciously aware of, which continue to shape how we move through the world.
Drawing from research in epigenetics and intergenerational trauma, I am interested in how healing can occur along familial lines when bridges are formed between what is spoken and what remains unspoken. I see this space as its own language, embodied, inherited, and felt.
Color operates as a carrier of meaning in my work, particularly red. It is tied to maternal memory, blood, lineage, and the symbolic “red thread of fate,” suggesting invisible connections that bind lives across time and generations. Through this visual language, I translate what is carried but not always named.
My work seeks to foster intergenerational understanding and shifts in inherited patterns of harm and care. I draw from my own family history as well as the stories of those close to me, weaving them into a multidisciplinary practice rooted in personal and collective memory.
Embroidery functions as both material and metaphor—a tactile language of thread, repair, and continuity, and an homage to the labor and traditions of the women who came before me. I frequently incorporate found materials such as fabric, cement, suitcases, embroidery hoops, and archival photographs to evoke the fragile yet enduring weight of lineage and belonging.
In addition to installation, my practice includes painting, ink, charcoal, photography, and sculpture, all used to explore birth, death, memory, language, color, connection, intergenerational trauma, and healing.